Softening details from photo image - children's book artwork - help needed, thank you.

[Fritterpop]

I have been hand-illustrating watercolor artwork for a children's picture book.

When I take a photo of the artwork; great amounts of detail show - even down to the actual grain of the woven cotton watercolor paper.

I would like to soften this so that it appears refined, softer, so that there is no hint of the weave of the cotton watercolor paper showing.

Are there some filters to apply to help with this, or some settings that can help? 

Your advice/help/suggestions would be much appreciated.

 

Thank you!

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[carl123]

11 minutes ago, Fritterpop said:

Are there some filters to apply to help with this,

One of the blur filters springs to mind but an example upload of the problem would be useful

[firstdefence]

Isn't half the charm of watercolours the textures, that said, bilateral blur might get you a result you are happy with, also try the Live Denoise filter; push the luminance slider up to 100% and drop the Luminance detail down to 0%, leave the other sliders alone.

I don't know what camera you have but if you have a camera that will accept lens filters you could add a diffuse or soft focus filter to the lens.